The festivals of Holi and Diwali together came in advance to the native village of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar in Bihar's Begusarai with his family and villagers rejoicing the Delhi High Court order granting conditional bail to him.

Watching the news flashes on TV at a neighbour's house in Bihar's Begusarai district, Meena Devi breaks down. "Please do not call my son a terrorist," said the mother of Jawaharlal Nehru University student union leader Kanhaiya Kumar who was arrested for charges of sedition on Friday.

As the BJP introspects on its Bihar defeat, another parliamentarian from the state has come out with a scathing critique, not sparing even Prime Minister Narendra Modi. PM Modi and other leaders had made unseemly comments during the campaign, said Bhola Singh.

The grand alliance led by Nitish Kumar is like the "Bigg Boss House", Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in an innovative insult while addressing a string of rallies today in Bihar, where polls will be held next week.

BJP chief Amit Shah, who attacked rivals Nitish Kumar and Lalu Yadav for most part of a speech to party workers in Bihar's Begusarai today, had to go on the defensive on the issue of caste-based reservations, emphasising that his party supports affirmative action.

In a comment that could be controversial, BJP president Amit Shah today referred to the Indian army's recent strike on militant camps in Myanmar to demonstrate that the Narendra Modi government was tougher than the Congress.

Two matriculation examinees were killed and six others injured today when an autorickshaw rammed into a speeding train at an unmanned crossing at a place under the East-Central Railway (ECR), a GRP officer said.

At least three people, including women, drowned and nearly 10 people went missing after an overcrowded boat capsized in the Ganga river in Bihar's Begusarai district early on Thursday, an official said.

In an embarrassment to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, contractual teachers on Thursday waved black flags, threw eggs and slippers, and shouted slogans at his public meeting in Bihar's Begusarai district demanding regularisation of services.